Natural hazards · Silver Springs

Silver Springs, NV natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Silver Springs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Silver Springs?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Silver Springs to be higher than in 90% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding47%Earthquakes46%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Silver Springs faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

46% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesCold wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamis

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Silver Springs flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Silver Springs.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Silver Springs isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Lyon County.

Disasters that hit Silver Springs

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Lyon County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Silver Springs itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Silver SpringsDeclared for Lyon County only

Lyon County has had 12 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Silver Springs covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Silver Springs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Silver Springs. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Silver Springs total about $1.1M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.